Discovery Scanner [Weekly Update] - 11/04/2022
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Well on the obvious one currently:
‘We know this is an important subject for a lot of cmdr and we’re still working on it. We don’t have a firm timeframe for this, but we’ll let you know what the situation is in more detail as soon as we’re able to’.
People are going to ask. And the above’s more or less the answer they’re going to get. May as well just put it in the update in the first place and cut out all the ‘why no update on it’ posts.
I used the "standard" Anaconda miner, but with 3 (three) SSD launchers: more missiles on board, no need to synthesize them. Due to the subsurface mining over 1200 t in 3 evenings of playing (appr. 2 hours each evening), as these commodities are rather rare for the laser mining only. It could be more of tons, but the last three evenings of CG I spent for the DSSA initiative (jumping of DSSA-FC to the Colonia for refitting) and RL.
Anaconda, so not unusual; the build I used for that CG was a sort of compromise between my standard mining build and my exploration / long-range trip build.
Calling it a "codebase merge" is wrong anyway, as it's more like a codebase abandonment. The 3.8 client will go away and the 4.0 client will remain.
There won't be a "single codebase" any more either way, since the console/Horizons version will be out there indefinitely now.
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For laser mining...
Used the now meta 3 x Size 2 mining laser and 4 x 1 augmented size 1 mining laser from tech broker on cutter...
Changes were made after lasers
Ditched the DSS...
As hot spots made no difference as there were no hot pots for those mining items, dumped the DSS for more collectors...
Reduced the refinery size..
As items for collection are limited number, refinery was reduced in bin count...
The time in ring is the hardest factor for the 512 ton cargo rack cutter...
Distractions were disabled in the end with filter on collection of items...
The Ice ring items were not rare, they were just low percentage per chunk as the radiation had no effect on them bonding to each other...
The cutter still looks the same from the outside only the number of collectors changed...
The mining map for laser mining in the bubble released to late to fill My FC... I had moved on at that point...
Used FC to get out there and back, so travel costs were 100K per (loaded by other player cost) tritium ton plus 400K for the jump damage...
For laser mining...
Used the now meta 3 x Size 2 mining laser and 4 x 1 augmented size 1 mining laser from tech broker on cutter...
Changes were made after lasers
Ditched the DSS...
As hot spots made no difference as there were no hot pots for those mining items, dumped the DSS for more collectors...
Reduced the refinery size..
As items for collection are limited number, refinery was reduced in bin count...
The time in ring is the hardest factor for the 512 ton cargo rack cutter...
Distractions were disabled in the end with filter on collection of items...
The Ice ring items were not rare, they were just low percentage per chunk as the radiation had no effect on them bonding to each other...
The cutter still looks the same from the outside only the number of collectors changed...
The mining map for laser mining in the bubble released to late to fill My FC... I had moved on at that point...
Used FC to get out there and back, so travel costs were 100K per (loaded by other player cost) tritium ton plus 400K for the jump damage...
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I think the most pressing concern is this really
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Well, that's the part where the jury is still out - for PC i mean.
Currently they have EDO PC client, Horizons PC client and Horizons Console Client
1) They will keep the Horizons Console Client as it is - for as long the Consoles will still have Elite running
2a) They could Drop the Horizons PC Client, this way everyone on PC will use a single codebase - the EDO PC client
or
2b) They could keep the Horizons PC client and put up with the potential issues - currently large gimbaled frags seem to be broken on PC (but not on Consoles) - so it's a source of issues
It's all a bit weird/hard to tell from the outside anyway. I wouldn't have thought Horizons for PC and console to be completely different "code bases". Shouldn't the high level code for the game mechanics be the same, no matter the compilation target?
Leaving the Horizons console version out there won't make things easier for the future either. I'm sure at some point some changes to the game that work completely as intended will break something for the console version, e.g. a new CG, some BGS stuff or something like that.
No, it's this statement:
"All Horizons players will also receive the new graphical updates, including the new planetary tech, lighting, and organics, free of charge, but will not be able to get out on foot or enter Odyssey’s tenuous atmospheres."
I might be wrong... but I think they scrapped that idea together with console development... Frontier should reinterate if this is still something we should expect.
Indeed, further clarification is required.
Is "focusing on a single codebase" means that PC Horizons client will be dropped? or it means that it will remain in maintenance mode on PC for as long the consoles will run the Horizons client?
They did and you can.Didn't they claim to have fixed this with update 11?
Otherwise, nice - and honest! - summary!
Ah yes, that was the first news post I read when I was planning to get Odyssey. Sure aged well along with the comments.Horizons / Odyssey Compatibility
Greetings Commanders, We hope you enjoyed the recent alpha for the PC version of Elite Dangerous: Odyssey! Thank you once again for your feedback and suggestions which will have a lasting impact for all future Commanders. This only marks the beginning for Odyssey. After the game launches on...
Fully agreed. Confidence in future starts to wear off, even with the most positive and patient ones as myself.Thanks Zac and welcome back
We're now in the second week of April, with little idea of how the game is being developed in 2022 (past Update 11 and a cheeky nod towards Update 12). Please can you tell us why the Monthly Dev Update reports and Top 20 Issues reports haven't resumed (after they stopped late last year), and when you expect them to resume again?
With the devteam working on the live service game, isn't there interesting information to share about their progress on improvements, resolving issues, and bug fixes?
Cheers for the weekly posts and livestreams too
Lol, this made me laugh out loud. And unfortunately I fear most of the reasons on this list are actually true.
My money is on four weeks of silence, then an announcement of the wind-down of development on Elite Dangerous, but with a vague allusion to "exciting news coming soon" that will be about Elite Dangerous 2, which will never actually be released.
Likewise, and yes me too
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